I am running windows 98 2nd edition and AOL6 .Whenever i try to to use Internet Explorer, either in AOL or seperately and try to read mails from hotmail it says; (JavaScript required.

The JScript scripting engine is an old component that was initially included with Internet Explorer 3.0 in 1996 and was Microsoft's own dialect of the ECMAScript standard (the JavaScript language).

Tired of those pesky errors popping up even when you're not using your browser? Tweaking a single Internet Explorer setting may eliminate the problem.

Microsoft says that customers can now disable JScript (JScript.dll) execution in Internet Explorer 11 after installing the Windows October 2020 monthly security updates.